#  `dump_text`

Print PDF text data to the console or a file
## Usage
> pdftl `<input>` `dump_text` `[output` `<output>]`

## Details
The `dump_text` operation attempts to extract text from a PDF file
and dumps it to stdout or the given output file.

**Warning** This is experimental and may be unreliable.

It uses the python library `pypdfium2`. To automatically install this
optional dependency run:

    pip install pdftl[dump-text]
## Examples

> Print destinations for in.pdf
```
pdftl in.pdf dump_text
```

> Save text from in.pdf to out.txt
```
pdftl in.pdf dump_text output out.txt
```


**Tags**: info, text, experimental

*Source: pdftl.operations.dump_text*

*Read online: [https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/dump_text.html](https://pdftl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/operations/dump_text.html)*

*Type: Operation*